1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1843), I. 385. Regarded by some of our first botanists as an epiphytous fungus, but proved on dissection to be a true gall.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazons, ii. (ed. 2), 29. The air-roots of epiphytous plants which sit on the stronger boughs of the trees above.
